Creating Inclusive Classroom Environments: Addressing Implicit Bias, Microaggressions & Exclusion

Description  Overview Students expect an inclusive campus environment that includes the classroom environment. However, many faculty do not receive the training or strategies on how best to create an inclusive environment where all students from a variety of diverse backgrounds can learn and thrive. The webinar will equip faculty and academic affairs staff with valuable strategies and skills to look critically at all aspects of the classroom, from developing diversity statements in your syllabus to addressing microaggressions in your course's online forum or in-person class to selecting diverse course materials. Participants will also become more aware of various diverse populations' unique challenges, including stereotype threat, microaggressions, and external stressors. Objectives Investigate and reflect upon one's own identities and biases and how they may impact their course development and instruction Assess course syllabus and explore opportunities to add inclusion or diversity statements and include diverse course materials and perspectives Identify campus vision, mission, values, and diversity philosophies that support the responsibility to create inclusive classroom environments Understand the complex challenges of marginalized student communities, including international students, underrepresented students, and others. Identify skills and strategies to address moments of bias, microaggressions, or exclusion Who Should Attend Administration Student Services/Affairs Academic Affairs Faculty Any educator interested in learning more about creating inclusive classroom environments